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subordinate clause (plural subordinate clauses)

1. (grammar) A clause that cannot stand alone as a sentence but rather functions as a noun, adjective, or adverb within a sentence, having been cued by any of various introductory words that subordinate it (complementize it).

   Synonyms: dependent clause, embedded clause

   Hypernym: clause

   Hyponyms: content clause, adverbial clause, relative clause; noun clause, nominal clause

   Coordinate terms: main clause, independent clause

使用する際の注意点

• Modern linguistics classifies the introductory words (which do the subordinating) as either subordinators (complementizers) or prepositions (depending on whether they carry inherent meaning), and most traditional grammars classified them all as subordinating conjunctions.

派生語

• subclause